[ANN] gemini-php: A Gemini server written in PHP

[Jason McBrayer]

Kevin Sangeelee <kevin at susa.net> writes:

> Great stuff - it's hard not to have a soft spot for such a pragmatic language as PHP!
>
> I measured performance at around 35 requests per second for the index
> page vs 105 for gemserv (Rust, native binary). Resident RAM use was
> ~25MB vs ~7MB for gemserv.
>
> I'd say that's pretty respectable for an interpreted language with a
> runtime, that's forking connections. My own Java server weighs in at
> ~100MB RAM, I must measure throughput, for fun.

What did you use to measure requests per second? Is there some
equivalent to ab(1) for Gemini? I'm curious about the performance of my
own server – it's a pretty naive implementation.

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